Sprint Corp. said on Tuesday preorders of Apple Inc.'s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, in the first three days, were up more than 375% over last year. Apple has said it will not give preorder numbers for its newest iPhone, but shares of the Cupertino-based ...

Investors wiped more than $10 billion off Samsung Electronics Co. SSNHZ 0.00 % 's market value Friday after U.S. air-safety regulators took the unusual step of singling out its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone as a potential airborne fire hazard. The shares ...

Investors wiped more than $10 billion off Samsung Electronics Co. SSNHZ 0.00 % 's market value Friday after U.S. air-safety regulators took the unusual step of singling out its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone as a potential airborne fire hazard. The shares ...

MANILA—An anti-American rant by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, which he later recanted, cast a shadow on Washington's bid to bolster ties with Asian allies such as Manila to help offset China's growing might. U.S. President Barack Obama ...

And again, like most breakups, there is likely far more going on underneath the surface. It can hardly be lost on anyone that less than six months ago eBay's management proclaimed the two businesses were "better together." Indeed, eBay had just waged an ...

LONDON—Earth lost half its wildlife in the past four decades, according to the most comprehensive study on animal populations to date, a far larger decline than has been previously reported. The latest analysis was done by scientists at the wildlife group ...

A Ukrainian soldier inside an armored personnel carrier. Eastern Ukraine has seen its worst violence in more than a week. Associated Press. KIEV, Ukraine—Ukrainian forces repelled two fresh assaults by pro-Russia rebels on the airport in the eastern city of ...

Japan has been hit by its first fatal volcanic eruption in 14 years, killing at least four climbers and leaving more than two dozen others unconscious and feared dead. The eruption at Mount Ontake, a popular hiking spot in central Japan, began shortly before ...

Japan has been hit by its first fatal volcanic eruption in 14 years, killing at least four climbers and leaving more than two dozen others unconscious and feared dead. The eruption at Mount Ontake, a popular hiking spot in central Japan, began shortly before ...

During his visit to the U.S., Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has plans for a private dinner with President Barack Obama and lunch with Vice President Joe Biden. There's one complication. He won't be eating. Mr. Modi arrives Friday in the middle of a strict ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. and several Middle Eastern allies struck Islamic State militants in Syria, the Pentagon announced Monday night, expanding a U.S.-led campaign into a country that has been a haven for the extremist group. President Barack Obama ...

Speculating over the status of the controversial 2022 World Cup has become a favorite pastime for anyone connected to soccer. So when an official from FIFA, the sport's world governing body, proffers an opinion, it immediately ripples out. On Monday, it was ...

Microsoft is in talks to acquire Swedish game company, Mojang. If the $2 billion deal for the maker of Minecraft goes through, the mobs, skeletons, zombies — and most importantly — the company's customer base of more than 50 million, would give Microsoft ...

Relying largely on analysis of the plane's in-flight data recorders, the Dutch Safety Board found that Flight 17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was "penetrated by a large number of high-energy objects . . . leading to an in-flight break up." There ...

What's News: Amazon cuts the price for the Fire smartphone to 99 cents from $199. SEC is preparing new mutual fund rules. CBS taps James Corden to succeed Craig Ferguson on “The Late Late Show.” Joanne Po reports. Photo: Amazon. Up Next ...

MOGADISHU—At least 12 people were killed Monday after an al-Shabaab suicide car bomber hit a convoy of African Union peacekeepers outside Somalia's capital, a police official said, in apparent retaliation for the slaying of the militant group's leader in last ...

At the U.S. Open Saturday, Federer was thumped by Marin Cilic, a 6-foot-6 Croat, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in an hour and 45 minutes. Federer, 33, looked a step slow while Cilic, 25, played with unusual ease for a man competing in the second Grand Slam semifinal of his ...

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri this week delivered his first response to the Islamic State since the rival militant group blitzed through Iraq and Syria this summer, erecting a de facto state the size of Belgium. In a 55-minute videotape, Mr. Zawahiri ...

JOHANNESBURG—The Dalai Lama has canceled plans to visit South Africa, its foreign ministry said Thursday, his latest unsuccessful attempt to obtain a visa for a country that has courted closer ties to China. The Tibetan spiritual leader had been invited to ...

Jerome Kerviel is arrested by French plainclothes policemen shortly after crossing from Italy to France in May this year. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. PARIS—A French court said on Thursday that it has granted parole to Jérôme Kerviel, the Société ...